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  • 1997 BBC documentary: Great Composers - Bach
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  • @tomarmstrong1281
    @tomarmstrong1281 Месяц назад +20

    I am an old man who has led a whole and satisfying life. I have always been able to play the piano, but not well. Now, in old age, with time to spare and a decent piano at my disposal, I have determined to thoroughly learn and play at least one Bach keyboard piece to my satisfaction. I consider that to do so will not be a life entirely wasted.

  • @J.B24
    @J.B24 Год назад +83

    39:22 Can you imagine going to church every week in Leipzig and getting an original Bach composition every week? Geez!

    • @arnoldrivas4590
      @arnoldrivas4590 8 месяцев назад +3

      With only one rehearsal on Saturday and perform on Sunday. Don't forget.

    • @emilalbazi8691
      @emilalbazi8691 7 месяцев назад +4

      And FREEEEEEE, No online booking headache.

    • @J.B24
      @J.B24 7 месяцев назад +4

      @@arnoldrivas4590 Yeah lol. I can't imagine what it would be like to have to perform a bach chorale after only one days rehearsal.

    • @lindacowles756
      @lindacowles756 6 месяцев назад

      I'd be over the moon if that were the case today.

    • @hisukserjeant5204
      @hisukserjeant5204 5 месяцев назад

      Thats true blessing!!!! I envy U !!!!!!!!

  • @renzo6490
    @renzo6490 3 месяца назад +10

    I was about 6 years old.
    Sitting beside my uncle Bill as he drove.
    My taste in music at that age was very basic:
    Christmas carols.
    The usual children’s songs…Home on the Range, Row Row Row your boat, etc,
    Uncle Bill turned the radio on to his classical music station.
    It was Bach, he told me.
    I listened for a few seconds.
    Then I was overcome with a feeling of nausea.
    I wasn’t ready for it.
    My ears couldn’t make sense of it.
    That was my introduction to Bach.
    Things have changed with time.
    That’s how it is with all kinds of tastes.
    Foods, colors.
    We grow into them as we pass through life’s stages.

  • @timbruer7318
    @timbruer7318 Месяц назад +5

    So nice to see this again, what a gift Bach gave humanity.

  • @RuoshiSun
    @RuoshiSun Год назад +90

    All music examples are listed below:
    00:49 Aria from Goldberg Variations, BWV 988
    03:14 "Jesu, meine Freude" from Jesu, meine Freude, BWV 227
    05:00 Siciliano from Harpsichord Concerto in E major, BWV 1053
    06:16 Aria di Postiglione from Capriccio on the departure of a beloved brother, BWV 992
    07:49 "Credo in unum Deum" from Mass in B minor, BWV 232
    11:30 Der Tag, der ist so freudenreich, BWV 719
    15:22 Contrapunctus IX from Art of Fugue, BWV 1080
    17:00 "Ach Herr, lehre uns bedenken" from Actus Tragicus, BWV 106
    18:53 Fugue in A minor, BWV 889 from Well-Tempered Clavier, Book 2
    19:04 Brandenburg Concerto No. 5 in D major, BWV 1050
    21:16 "Zion hört" from Wachet auf, ruft uns die Stimme, BWV 140
    23:45 "Gloria in excelsis" from Mass in B minor, BWV 232 [Note: This movement is in D major, to illustrate Gardiner's earlier point.]
    25:46 Prelude in C major, BWV 846 from Well-Tempered Clavier, Book 1
    27:40 Preludes in C major - C minor - C-sharp major, BWV 846-848 from Well-Tempered Clavier, Book 1
    29:06 Prelude in D major, BWV 850 from Well-Tempered Clavier, Book 1
    29:44 Air from Orchestral Suite No. 3 in D major, BWV 1068
    31:11 Fugue in D-sharp minor, BWV 853 from Well-Tempered Clavier, Book 1
    33:30 "Laudamus te" from Mass in B minor, BWV 232
    35:30 Variation 5 from Goldberg Variations, BWV 988
    39:34 "Gute Nacht, o Wesen" from Jesu, meine Freude, BWV 227
    42:17 "Wir setzen uns mit Tränen nieder" from St Matthew Passion, BWV 244
    43:20 "O love divine" from Theodora, HWV 68
    46:04 "Erbarme dich" from St Matthew Passion, BWV 244
    51:22 "Cum Sancto Spiritu" from Mass in B minor, BWV 232
    52:59 Contrapunctus XIV from Art of Fugue, BWV 1080
    55:56 "Dona nobis pacem" from Mass in B minor, BWV 232

  • @orlovae1
    @orlovae1 Год назад +46

    Thanks. There was one moment in my life which I remember very well, when I realized that Bach is the greatest. I was at a musical school, waiting for my lesson and listening for an other student, playing Bach, looking through the window and thinking. I felt the calm, but striking beauty of the moment. I said to myself that the music of Bach is like contemplation. But I woud not be able to formulate, why is that, what is the difference to the other composers, why it feels so different. Here musicians make a good job to show the difference.

    • @salvatoredistefano6256
      @salvatoredistefano6256 6 месяцев назад +1

      I knew it since I was 6 y.o. My teacher told me.

    • @hortensiacarvajal6801
      @hortensiacarvajal6801 2 месяца назад

      Me habría gustado identificar a cada artista que participó maravillosamente bien en este programa buenísimo, con este grande de la música. Felicitaciones😊❤

  • @JulianKeniryGreen
    @JulianKeniryGreen 2 дня назад +1

    "Bach, the Old Testament of music." Amen.

  • @bruceweaver1518
    @bruceweaver1518 2 месяца назад +2

    He was the master of us all-indeed The Master of Masters.

  • @gamnamoo6195
    @gamnamoo6195 День назад

    Bach, the greatest musical gift to humanity from God!

  • @Quim141
    @Quim141 Год назад +14

    43:00 the comparison between one of the great composers of all time and the greatest, undoubtely the best and most complex composer of all time.

  • @oludotunjohnshowemimo434
    @oludotunjohnshowemimo434 4 месяца назад +2

    Bach was indeed a very busy man, being the music director of Leipzig.
    Having to prepare cantatas every week for Sunday services, back in his office on Monday to compose the canatata for the upcoming Sunday.

  • @ampzamp
    @ampzamp 6 месяцев назад +7

    ...Bach was the greatest Christian preacher, ever. And he did it all, without saying a word.

  • @felixpizza
    @felixpizza Год назад +8

    Thanks for posting this, I enjoyed it a lot

  • @MiaFeigelsonGallery
    @MiaFeigelsonGallery 11 месяцев назад +4

    @SW I can't find the words to thank you enough !!! Best wishes

  • @zyrtec3859
    @zyrtec3859 3 месяца назад +1

    Thank you for posting this BEST EVER documentary about JSBach. Have seen many of them, but THIS is really the BEST.

  • @SteveK77536
    @SteveK77536 Месяц назад

    The first ime I got my 80's vintage PC play a MIDI song was Bach's Two Part Invention in A Minor. I was thrilled. Still am.

  • @treakzy_9594
    @treakzy_9594 5 месяцев назад +6

    watching this high is cray

  • @quaver1239
    @quaver1239 Год назад +9

    Many thanks, SW.

  • @aksuli1
    @aksuli1 Год назад +9

    Great documentary 👍.

  • @janicemahan4772
    @janicemahan4772 5 месяцев назад +3

    As Hawkeye on "Mash" would say..."Ah, Bach." Once you've said that, you've said everything.

  • @ecyranot
    @ecyranot 2 месяца назад +1

    Why hasn't there been a feature film about Bach? He sounds like a trip.

  • @martinmilner14
    @martinmilner14 2 месяца назад

    The majority of this documentary is refreshingly delivered in down to earth, plain language.. Inevitably there is one person who has to disguise her ignorance in pompous verbosity, but thankfully ,just one. High quality documentary about even higher quality music.

  • @RicoMusap-te3om
    @RicoMusap-te3om Месяц назад +2

    Bach loved Jesus!!!🎉❤

  • @mastertao1179
    @mastertao1179 18 дней назад

    at 15:22 Ton Koopman and Tini Mathot play Contrapunctus IX from Art of Fugue, BWV 1080, very aggressive and powerful

  • @stavrosk.2868
    @stavrosk.2868 6 месяцев назад +4

    Too bad the musical offering wasn´t touched upon in this documentary. Public recognition? Bach knéw that his music was immortal and for the ages.

  • @davidcox8945
    @davidcox8945 5 месяцев назад +1

    Bach in Arnstadt….’no shredding Joe!’

  • @infledermaus
    @infledermaus 2 месяца назад

    I think Bach would have lost his mind if he'd been sat down at a modern piano. I know he played a piano before his death, but they were nowhere near as smooth and beautiful as today's instruments.
    And can you imagine him sitting at a modern organ or a synthesizer? 😊

  • @salvatoredistefano6256
    @salvatoredistefano6256 6 месяцев назад

    35:30 “OK, I approve it.”

  • @EttorealbertoGelli-vr6sz
    @EttorealbertoGelli-vr6sz 2 месяца назад

    K. vide un Angelo di straordinaria luce a guardia di yna altissima porta , la PORTA DELLA LEGGE. La Porta era aperta e K. riusci a vedere al suo interno una scala e una na luce ancora più forte di quella dell'Angelo Questo guardiano celeste aspettava che K. si muovesse verso la Porta ma vide che K. non era capace di CONOSCERE IL CONTENUTO DELLA PORTA DELLA LEGGE e cosi chiuse la Porta dicendogli : " questa Porta era stata aperta PER TE ". Nessun uomo, scrive FK, è capace di attraversare la PORTA DELLA LEGGE xchè è troppo imperfetto. Nessun uomo tranne yno a cui è stato dato il nome JOHANN SEBASTIAN... (variazioni sul cap. 11 detto ESEGESI DELLA LEGGENDA, " DER PROZESS" di FK)

  • @northsta
    @northsta 6 месяцев назад +1

    56:16 same wish for me, only I'd prefer harpsichord over organ😍

  • @gauriblomeyer1835
    @gauriblomeyer1835 Год назад +2

    Wonderful, but not enough. I liked do hear more, something like the partita, chaconne, which as Mendelsson remarked is technical so difficult to play that only very few brilliant violin masters as Heifetz, Perlman, Milstein, Stern could perform it. Quite rare and full of jokes is the Quodlibet.

    • @DuncanEduardo
      @DuncanEduardo Год назад

      Chaconne 1004 is so much better on guitar imo. If only Bach could have witnessed it

  • @Robinwhiteart
    @Robinwhiteart 4 месяца назад +1

    One of the few things humans have a right to boast about: Bach.

  • @gcummings88
    @gcummings88 5 месяцев назад +1

    The non-musician has one advantage over the musician. The non-musician can be totally right brain. The
    musician must add the left brain because of the need to physically play the music. We are in debt to the
    wonderul musicians, but they do not neccesarly get more out of the music than non-musicians get.

    • @GourSmith
      @GourSmith 4 месяца назад +1

      There has literally never been-in the history of this existence-a person who was “totally right-brain” 🙄 You genuinely don’t even understand the words you’re using. An insufferable character for sure 😂👋

  • @pereboom23
    @pereboom23 10 месяцев назад +3

    So we modern people allow the piano to play Bach

  • @EttorealbertoGelli-vr6sz
    @EttorealbertoGelli-vr6sz 2 месяца назад

    JSB is the only real "SINGULARITY" in human history,the most preciaus human gift for the Universe

  • @mrbrianjhewitt
    @mrbrianjhewitt 5 месяцев назад

    Any ideas on why Bach wrote a Mass in B minor instead of music in B minor for the Lutheran Divine Service? Thanks.

    • @jimbo2629
      @jimbo2629 4 месяца назад +1

      No. But I would like to know. Plenty of Latin and catholic service.

    • @chenyanhao676
      @chenyanhao676 Месяц назад +1

      I read somewhere (my dreams) that writting a Catholic mass is totally in line with the self-guided tenets of Lutheranism. He included so many “secular” ideas into the rigid catholic mass structure especially in the arias which are full of self-expression. Indeed, Bach wrote multiple masses, but this is his greatest.
      The B minor mass represents the culmination of Bach’s skill and faith, compiling his 5 decades long career into a single unified work. In another perspective, the B minor mass unites the rigidity of the Catholic faith and the self-realization which stems from Lutheranism.

  • @utsneunste
    @utsneunste 17 дней назад

    Great documentary, but how can Andras Schiff not make it onto the credits?

  • @TheProsaicCult
    @TheProsaicCult 5 месяцев назад +2

    You hardly mentioned his vast collection of organ works. Unexplainable!

    • @andrewknight8860
      @andrewknight8860 4 месяца назад

      Yes, you're right, and that is what I listen to most.

  • @jhsu8903
    @jhsu8903 Год назад +5

    Does anyone know what piece Andras Schiff plays at 35:31?

  • @abcxyz8787
    @abcxyz8787 4 месяца назад

    In wikipedia it's written that Bach was born on 31/3 and here they say he was born on 23/3, which date is the correct one?

    • @nicejob1589
      @nicejob1589 4 месяца назад +1

      31/3 - Greetz from Germany

    • @abcxyz8787
      @abcxyz8787 4 месяца назад

      @@nicejob1589Thanks :) The reason why I'm asking is that I recently came across the subject of life paths in numerology. It's when you add all the digits in your date of birth and reduce them to one digit. I calculated my life path to be 9 and started to read about it. It has a lot of characteristics which I will not mention but one that I thought might suit Bach is a special connection to the divine or to divine energy or higher spirituality and general view of things and special connection to music. I don't listen to a lot of classical music but I always loved Bach (well to the few pieces he composed that I listen to and like. I don't know or listen to most of his work). I felt something very deep in his music that touches me deeply and takes me to higher places emotionally and spiritually. I was interested to check out what his life path was and was pleased to find out that he is also a life path 9 (that is if you calculate his day of birth according to 31/3). That's why I was a bit worried when someone said in this program that he was born on 23/3 because that changes his life path number. I know this life path thing is not science and I don't know how much I believe in it myself, but it's an interesting thing to explore.

    • @EttorealbertoGelli-vr6sz
      @EttorealbertoGelli-vr6sz 2 месяца назад +1

      It depends: gregoriano calendar 21 / 3. Modern calendar 3 / 3. When JSB borned there was gregoriano calendar

    • @EttorealbertoGelli-vr6sz
      @EttorealbertoGelli-vr6sz 2 месяца назад +1

      Modern calendar 31 / 3

    • @abcxyz8787
      @abcxyz8787 2 месяца назад

      Thanks for your replies

  • @pereboom23
    @pereboom23 10 месяцев назад +1

    Piano? It should played on harpsichord but talking about period music

  • @alpinoalpini3849
    @alpinoalpini3849 Месяц назад

    Where would be God be without Bach? 😉

  • @pereboom23
    @pereboom23 10 месяцев назад

    Organ or harpsichord. Never seen a piano at the Matteüs or Johannes passion 😂😂😂😂

  • @pereboom23
    @pereboom23 10 месяцев назад +1

    Metal no baroque bows 🙈 no 19th instruments please

    • @stavrosk.2868
      @stavrosk.2868 6 месяцев назад +2

      So....if you love the period so much, you would prefer an 18th century eye cataract operation in stead of 21st century?

  • @pereboom23
    @pereboom23 10 месяцев назад

    Piano very legato not steggato😢

  • @potsdam521
    @potsdam521 4 месяца назад +1

    Thats totally misleading Schiff telling Mozart knew the WTC and played it everyday, Mozart had exposure to Bach very late in life. Yes, he studied with JC Bach but surely it was not his fathers works. Why having to perpetuate that stereotype of a kind of dinasty in Music? On the other hand it was Beethoven who was deeply influenced by JS Bach and studied his works since his early years, and through Czerny and Liszt started the modern piano virtuoso school, with the solid base of the WTC and then his own sonatas. So its also curious Schiff mention Chopin and Schumann, but leaves Liszt out. When im fact Liszt did more to teach Bach through his multiple transcriptions.

    • @soozb15
      @soozb15 3 месяца назад +2

      Schiff has made no secret of his dislike for Liszt's music.

    • @nightwish1000
      @nightwish1000 2 месяца назад

      He mentioned Liszt right after Chopin and Schumann. You better listen again.

    • @potsdam521
      @potsdam521 2 месяца назад

      @@nightwish1000 im referring to Schiff in minute 28 of the video, he never mentions Liszt but Mozart at the very first. Which is just his fantasy as he dislikes Liszt, but again, Mozart exposure to Bach is very late in life and not at all formational (the first great composer that was profoundly educated with Bachs music is Beethoven, and from there to Czerny and then Liszt will become the corner stone of classical musical education)

  • @OUTBOUND184
    @OUTBOUND184 Год назад +3

    48:55 It's such a shame when atheist hearts know more than their heads but the materialistic veil is so heavy that, even though they themselves recognise the truth (from where?) they deny it in the same sentence

    • @nikosvault
      @nikosvault 9 месяцев назад +1

      Actually he denied YOU.

    • @OUTBOUND184
      @OUTBOUND184 9 месяцев назад

      Incoherent. Go away.@@nikosvault

    • @apes4days254
      @apes4days254 3 месяца назад

      ​@@nikosvault he denied his own passion

  • @potsdam521
    @potsdam521 5 месяцев назад +1

    Yes Bach changed history of music. But he had almost no impact on Mozart and contemporary music, from Beethoven is really when Bach enhances all coming music and becomes the pilar of the classical tradition .

    • @scottedmiston6566
      @scottedmiston6566 5 месяцев назад +7

      No impact on Mozart and contemporary music!? Huh? Mozart has been directly quoted admiring Bach and Bach indirectly influenced him-- he extensively learned from Bach's son J Christian Bach. The structures of contemporary music are based much on Bach's innovations. And as for contemporary, composers like philip glass, paul mccartney, brad meldhau, etc. openly reference Bach. Nadia Boulanger, the pre-eminent music teacher of the 20th century, instructed all of her future hall of fame composers by having them hand-trancribe Bach's Well Tempered Clavier. Yo, Bach didn't have an impact on music. He is music.

    • @potsdam521
      @potsdam521 5 месяцев назад +1

      @@scottedmiston6566 JC Christian Bach music has nothing to do with his fathers music, I think theres also a quote from him were he declares not truly understanding his father music. Thats why I say he has no impact on Mozart, and this totally opposite to Beethoven that learned the WTC since very young.

    • @nicos4655
      @nicos4655 5 месяцев назад +3

      @@potsdam521​​⁠​⁠ What is true, is that JS Bachs music did count as old fashioned in the classical era. On the other hand it is completely wrong that he would have had „almost no impact“ on Mozart. After JC Bach showed Mozart a few manuscripts of his father, he very intesively studied JS Bachs works and you can even hear that Mozarts style of composition changed a lot after that.

    • @GourSmith
      @GourSmith 4 месяца назад +1

      @@potsdam521There would be no Mozart, Beethoven, Chopin etc without Bach. Bach isn’t even my favorite … That’s just reality. Mozart adored Bach. He grew up learning and studying Bach. Sit down with your ignorance and shut up 🙄

    • @gopher7691
      @gopher7691 4 месяца назад +1

      Bach had a profound influence on Mozart later in his life. You only have to listen to the Jupiter symphony to realize it

  • @HomeAtLast501
    @HomeAtLast501 Месяц назад

    Over-stylized documentary with scripted impromptu interviews --- just what you'd expect from BBC.